I have in the past conducted many onsite compliance interviews at locations with many individuals who claim to be trained in HAZCOM only to find that they truely did not have the necessary knowledge to be compliant with the OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.12 00 (h). Section states employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of initial assignment. (I find that they do not receive effective training) I guess that's why HAZCOM

You can try 360 solutions, your local ASSE chapter can also provide some help, even used retried OSHA employees in the past. There are many opportunities available for training to you. Call your State OSH Office (if you have one) and see if they offer training through their consultation program. Again, there are many ways to get the training done and if your ever had a compliance audit and suffered those fines associated with citations then the cost will not seem that prohibitive. Good luck!

You might even try contacting the OSH office in your state to see if they have a consultation program. These people are trained at the Federal OSHA Institute and are really sharp when it comes to compliance. They will come into your facility and conduct both health and safety surveys, make recommendations and help with your health and safety management system. They do not charge for their services and are in the best position to give both advise and up to date regulatory consultation services to

I use Intelex, formerly Isosoft. It does OSHA logs automatically and tracks all training. It's more expensive than other programs but totally worth it--I used two programs before going to this. We also use it for environmental management and document control, but those modules are optional. www.intelex.com ; Contact: Mark Jaine, (416) 599-6009. Tell him Anne Bedarf referred you (No, I don't get any compensation). Thanks.

We bought a DVD camera for recording trainings that not everyone can get to (mostly because of shift work ), then require that the missing attendees view & sign-off on the DVD. Has anyone else tried training like this?

I would also appreciate any examples. One thing we want to add is a space for "incidents"--something like a bee sting (no allergic reaction), or a small vehicle bump (no damage) in order to streamline the reporting & review process but still have documentation.

You are supposed to have at least one person on duty trained in First Aid any time a facility is within 7 minutes or more of a rescue squad (which for all practical purposes is all of the time since nothing is guaranteed). Red Cross is the old standard, though we use a group (we are in Charlottesville, VA) called Central Virginia Safety Concepts, LLC, (434) 981-5045. She is great and includes Bloodborne Pathogens , CPR and First Aid at once, initially. It gets a little complicated because the refresher

I did a bunch of research on this and have, we think, found a way to get around the issues safetysuzy brought up. Email me for the full program ( abedarf@rivanna.org ) but basically we said, to get the 8 hours leave (they were already getting this under the old program), they have to: attend regular (monthly) tailgate talks; submit one safety suggestion, positive work observation of another, or near miss of their own per year, review at least 3 JSAs per year, and report any accident within 24 hours.